斯坦福大學校長談大學教育
????亞當?拉辛斯基:我想問你科技如何成為解決方法的一部分。但在此之前,我想先問問你,我們這個國家是否使人們認為,他們需要一個大學學位才能獲得成功,但實際上他們沒必要擁有大學學位? ????約翰?漢尼斯:你知道嗎,我認為你不必擁有大學學位,但如果我是一位加入勞動力大軍的年輕人,我希望在今后40、45甚至50年里繼續工作,因為實際上我認為退休是20、30、40年后的事情。在這段時間里,你可能會換很多個工作,那么大學教育還有重要的價值嗎?很有可能。在未來,經濟可能將充滿不確定性,不會像以前那樣穩定,這時大學教育可能更有價值。可以提供大多數美國人所希望的生活質量的工作將會更少,如果沒有獲得大學教育,你將無法得到這類工作。 ????譯者:千牛絮 |
????ADAM LASHINSKY: But before I ask you about how technology could be part of it, have we as a country guilted people into thinking that they need a college degree to succeed where they don't necessarily need one? ????JOHN HENNESSY: You know, I think you don't necessarily need one, but if I were a young person going out to the workforce expecting to work for the next 40, 45, maybe 50 years of my life, because realistically I think that's what retirement ages will look like 20, 30, 40 years from now, is there great value in a college education when you're going to have multiple careers over that period of time? Probably. And in terms of -- in a time of great economic uncertainty, which is probably what's going to be in the future rather than the certainty we've had, then a college education is probably more valuable. There will be fewer -- you will not be able to get the kind of jobs that will provide the quality of life that most Americans hope for without a college education. |